Transforming a Developmental Psychology Course to Reflect Students' Diversity

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Transforming a Developmental Psychology Course to Reflect Students' Diversity

I've been working for several years on transforming a large lecture course in developmental psychology, striving to give greater attention to issues of race, ethnicity, gender, social class, and religion along with the more traditional topics for such a course. On other campuses, this same course might be called "childhood and adolescence," or "human development," or "child and family development." Many developmental psychology courses and textbooks are organized chronologically, from infancy through early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, and sometimes adult development and aging. Other …